Printer Driver HP PSC 2410 PhotoSmart

Printer Driver HP PSC 2410 PhotoSmart the things that impressed me about the device is the degree of integration between the hardware and software. as someone who primarily uses a mac (and no, i'm not going to get into the whole mac vs. pc holy war) i have had my expectations set over the years that big companies (like hp) would not support mac-specific options. the hp 2410 is a happy exception. after going through the install process, pressing the scan button on the printer reveals options for scanning into photoshop, apple's mail program, hp's director application, etc.

Printer Driver HP PSC 2410 PhotoSmart Review

my only complaint about the process comes from trying to do a project with the device. for this project i needed to scan ~10 full page documents. since i knew i needed to do some cleanup on the scans, i wanted to scan into adobe photoshop. this requires 6 key presses at minimum (one particular to select the scan function then four to scroll to phototshop in the menu, and one to choose). what i found amazing is that i needed to repeat this for each of my first three scans before the printer began selecting photoshop after my first scroll down.

i still find it remarkable that the “short” path requires 3 key presses. the usability of the device would be markedly increased by simply persisting what the user last did rather than resetting after each scan.

digital photography

for those of you which has a digital camera, the 2410 is a pretty cool device. i grew up with traditional photography. as a result, i find having a contact sheet (a “proof sheet” in hp parlance) a really great way of quickly understanding the contents of a roll of film to make editing decisions. hp made the process of printing the evidence sheets much easier than scanning into photoshop: insert the compactflash (cf) card, press two keys, and you're done